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"Pro Wrestling + Comics" with Jim Rugg

Episode Summary

Jim Rugg, famous cartoonist and co-host of Cartoonist Kayfabe, joins the show to talk about professional wrestling and comic books.

Episode Notes

Jim Rugg, famous cartoonist and co-host of Cartoonist Kayfabe, joins the show to talk about professional wrestling and comic books.

We also discuss our earliest wrestling memories, Rob Liefeld's thoughts on wrestling, testosterone connections to comics, gravitating to larger than life characters, getting back into wrestling through podcasting, being themselves in public, finding out that wrestling is staged, the backstory on "shoot" interviews, allowing creators to tell their own stories, tracking down the indies of wrestling / comics, AEW & WWE, Jon Moxley and the resurgence of independent wrestling, Steve Austin in ECW, comic creators as personas, thoughts on the final Rambo movie, and much more.